Yes, many places have a serious need for Tor. But the bridge stats are misleading because bridges are exclusivity for circumventing censorship.

The stats for tor relays [0] are different:

    United States   418568 (20.37 %)
    Russia          335382 (16.32 %)
    Germany         172251 (8.38 %)
    France           92643 (4.51 %)
    Netherlands      76496 (3.72 %)
    United Kingdom   68674 (3.34 %)
    Indonesia        61917 (3.01 %)
    Ukraine          50331 (2.45 %)
    Canada           48246 (2.35 %)
    India            43953 (2.14 %)

Out of the roughly 66.5% of relay users represented here, 42.5% are from western countries.

[0]: https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-table.html